Honest dialogue

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) on the budget debate:

“One of the things that most frustrates the American people about Washington is how hard it can be to get reliable information and straightforward answers.
Politicians offer a budget proposal and say it cuts taxes even though taxes go up. They even come up with new names to disguise tax hikes—maybe they call them deficit cuts or revenue enhancements or reduced spending in the tax code. We hear people come to the floor and blame our massive deficit on anything and everything but our out-of-control spending—it’s the war in Iraq or it’s a tax cut passed a decade ago or it’s special preferences for private yachts and Learjets.
We can’t have an honest budget if we don’t have an honest dialogue.
So I’m here today to speak the plain truth, as best I can, and to provide some concrete facts for consideration by my colleagues, the media, and the public.
First, I would like to address the myth that the president has a $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan. The only plan the White House has ever put on paper is his February budget, which doubles our national debt.
The president has never put a single spending cut plan on paper and he has no proposal to slash the deficit. If he does, it’s a closely guarded secret. And if such a secret plan does exist it should be made public this very afternoon. I’d like to see it. I’m sure millions of Americans feel the same.
We also have no debt plan from Senate Democrats. In fact, they haven’t even passed a budget in 813 days..." 

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